Flare

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What Wikipedia says

A flare or decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by an aircraft to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Flare (countermeasure)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: (U.S. Air Force photo), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.